The Irish standard., 1887-11-26
CARDINAL. MANNINGAT HOME
His Views on Matters Concerning
this Country and
Ireland.
IRELAND WILL HAVE HOME RULE.

IRELAND WILL HAVE HOME RULE
The Feeling il Favor Of Home lRule i
i Growing Rapidly Throughout
/ the Country.
/ Ispent an hour with Cardinal Man
ming on Friday, says the London cor
respondent of the Baltimore Sun. W.
sat in his library, a large room, with
shelving running around two sides
filed with rare and antique volumes
The furniture Of the room is OF the
plainest character, and the floors are
bare except for tive small and worn
out rugs, which appear just like patch
in the centre. a more uninyiting
room and apartments can scarcely be
l,sfancied, but it was all forgotten in the
charm Of the presence of the owner.
| There is a peculiar attraction in
the culture and the manners of
many OF the Catholic priesthood,
which is. not less appreciated and
admired by Protestants than Catholics.
i do not know when I have spent all
hour more full Of interest, instruction,
and intellectual enjoyment than that
with this dear, lovely old man. Lie is
within a month or two OF foul score;
but while his figure is very spare, his
face wan, and the wrinkles Oh 1t deep
indeed, the glorious soul and mind
which God gave him beam with an un-
speakable lustre. He looked me
straight and steadily in the eyes as he
talked in earnest, gentle tones. and it
was long after I left before the brighter
and purer atmosphere whichhs diffused
faded. Naturally our talk ran upon
English, Irish and American politics,
and to some extent upon church
matters
The Cardinal evinced accurate knowl-
edge Of American affairs He admires
our form of government, but thinks its
administration could be improved if we
had fewer elections and longer terms
Of Office He takes much interest in
the proposition for the assem- bling OF g
Catholic congress Of English speaking
people, and said he had just received a
letter from Bishop ireland in regard to
that matter. / asked the Cardinal
about the progress ct Catholicism in
England. He said it was most graft
flying; that it was not SO much in COM
parative point Of numbers as in materi
al progress and influence. The church
now stood OH q happy basis in Eng
land and was given tss much considersJ
tion by government and people as any
other denomination. The Church Of
England did not exercise OF attempt to
exercise any direct influence on iegisla-
tion OF politics, but Of course its patron
age controlled votes. He showed me
from his window a splendid site, cover
ing four acres, which he secured some
time since for the erection Of q grand
cathedral in London. He said he
should not, at his advanced time Of
life, attempt to begin the work of build
ing this cathedral; that he must leave
for mis- successor. In speaking of Eng
ljsh politics, he said it was probable
that no people were better satisfied with
the structure Of their government and
it's institutions than those Of Great
Britain. In no government in the
world was there such a degree of alb
solute pers onal liberty as in Great
Britain. One never knew there was
any law until he ran against it. Scot
land and England were completely
fused in identity Of interest. 1t was
different with Ireland, because Of the
different treatment That unhappy
island has been ruled by England for
more than three centuries by force
alone. 1t was under Henry VIII. that
the policy was inaugurated which has
made and kept Ireland disaffected.
Had it not been for this, ireland would
Ihtt DCCu dc uCyOVCu tk14U 1OJEtl w
the English crown as Scotland. He
was an Englishman to the backbone,
but he knew and loved the Irish people!
A more true, a more loyal, and more
noble race never existed. They could
be ruled with an uplifted thumb when
kindly and justly dealt with, but they
never would bow to force and wrong.
He had often been asked about boycott
tiers and moonshiners. and so on He
believed that injustice always developed
the worst passions Of men. and boycott
ters and moonshiners were the product
of injustice. Proper and just land
laws he considered to be the essential
element for the tranquilizing of Ire
land, and one feature must. be the re-
quirem ent of absentee landlords tore
turn or part with their estates There
we're several big corporations il Lon
don which wned vast tracts of land in
Ireland. This was manifestly wrong.
and onesof the first things to be rem